Is it too late for me to take a second look at this planet that has nourished me and determine some ways in which I can give back?
nydailynews.com | By William Sherman | Posted 10.04.2009 | New York
Reduce, reuse, recycle - well, not so much. New Yorkers are still tossing out more than half the stuff they should be recycling, managing to go gre...
Jane Minogue | Posted 12.02.2009 | Living
It was the last day of my husband's staycation (nope, we didn't go anywhere), and we realized that one of the errands we overlooked (party animals that we are) was taking the recycling to a center.
thedailygreen.com | Posted 12.01.2009 | Green
Instead of filling up landfills with once-used plastics and fabrics, get creative, and come up with your own unique look with reused and recycled mate...
Courtney Reum | Posted 11.30.2009 | Green
The question isn't black/white or cut/dry, so I think it should actually be rephrased more along the lines of, "Where do you fall in the spectrum of trying to be more 'green'?"
Dornob | Posted 11.29.2009 | Green
Contemporary yes, modern sure, sustainable indeed, but above all these furniture designs are just plain cool....
washingtonpost.com | David A. Fahrenthold | Posted 11.25.2009 | Green
Plush U.S. toilet paper is usually made by chopping down and grinding up trees that were decades or even a century old. They want Americans, like Euro...
Michael Parrish DuDell | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green
Not very long ago I found myself at a fancy green-themed party. At first glance one might think that Mother Nature herself had blessed this sustainable soiree. And then the hors d'oeuvres were passed.
nytimes.com | MIREYA NAVARRO | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green
Collecting, transporting, storing and getting rid of garbage is a costly and often daunting task for cities. Lynn Brown, a spokeswoman for Waste Manag...
Kate Kelly | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green
I realized my downfall on recycling was with the items we don't "use up" very regularly. I turned to experts for advice on handling the more random items.
greenbiz.com | GreenerDesign Staff | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green
NEW YORK CITY, NY - Starbucks launched a pilot program in seven New York stores last week that could help the company move toward its goal of making a...
Avital Binshtock | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green
Some of the most eye-catching baubles are made of stuff that had a past life--and many of them can be found on Etsy, a global network of artisans selling handmade works.
AP | MICHAEL VIRTANEN | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York
ALBANY, N.Y. — Mandatory deposits on water bottles are expected to start this fall in New York, while the Paterson administration considers chan...
Dan Dorfman | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York
Such informed financial minds as Ben Bernanke and Tim Geithner have been telling us for months the recession is history, but just maybe they ought to chat with a can man.
thedailygreen.com | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
But recycling isn't just about everyday household items any more. Nonprofit organizations and specialized businesses are springing up everywhere to re...
Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
Last week I got a tour of the US Open with Rita Garza, the Director Public Relations for USTA Pro Tennis and the head of the organization's Green Task...
David Roberts | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green
American people are deeply confused about how to reduce their impact, even if they wanted to. I cringe every time I see someone on TV going on about unplugging power strips.
The Media Consortium | Posted 09.28.2009 | Home
By Raquel Brown, TMC MediaWire Blogger Our throwaway economy is largely to blame for our environmental woes, as Lester Brown points out for Grist. Fi...
Kate Kelly | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green
The move toward greater energy efficiency Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs is more complex than consumers might realize because all fluorescent bulbs contain mercury, a known neurotoxin.
planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 09.10.2009 | Green
New York City schools have been legally required to recycle since 1989, but until recently, the only schools that actually did were ones in which facu...
Avital Binshtock | Posted 09.07.2009 | Green
If you're an art collector, aficionado, or appreciator, these four tips should help you shift your collection (or simply the way you see art) into a more earth-minded endeavor.
Mary Liz Thomson | Posted 09.06.2009 | Green
Discovered 10 years ago, The Garbage Patch or Plastic Vortex, is a huge area of floating plastic garbage, stretching hundreds of square miles northwest of Hawaii in the ocean's No Man's Land.
Christine Escobar | Posted 09.05.2009 | Chicago
Under the program, households will be encouraged to increase their recycling to receive rewards based on the amount of recyclables they generate
Wendy Gordon | Posted 08.29.2009 | Green
The existing recycling program in NYC reduced the city's global warming emissions by 500,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide; the equivalent of taking 338,000 cars off the road each year.
Jennifer Grayson | Posted 08.29.2009 | Green
Dear Eco Etiquette: I have a roommate who insists on buying bottled water. I've sent her various statistics and pictures about how harmful the produc...
Donna Joseph | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green